by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune March 28, 2017 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout The Texas Senate unanimously approved a two-year budget on Tuesday that would shift nearly $2 billion in public education costs from the state to local taxpayers. The Senate’s $218 billion document now goes…

by Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune March 28, 2017 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Tuesday, sending his case back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and invalidating the state’s current method of determining…

EAGLE PASS, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $100,000 worth of narcotics, in an enforcement action at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry. “Our CBP officers intercepted these drugs and prevented them from reaching their destination,” said Port Director John Brandt, Eagle Pass Port of…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The Eagle Pass Independent School District Police Department has arrested a suspect, Antonio Caballero, Jr., age 21, on Friday, March 24, 2017 in the vandalism case against Eagle Pass High School and Eagle Pass Junior High that occurred during Spring…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune March 24, 2017 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. WASHINGTON — With Friday’s decision to pull the American Health Care Act from a vote, U.S. House Republicans came up short in their singular promise to voters for over seven years: repealing former…

Carrizo Springs, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents and Dimmit County Sheriff’s deputies, working in conjunction, apprehended a man suspected of kidnapping. On March 22, Carrizo Springs Station Border Patrol agents responded to a call for assistance from the Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office, who had received a report of a…

(Press Release) In San Antonio, a federal grand jury returned a 13–count indictment charging three San Antonio residents for their alleged roles in a mail theft scheme that involved the shooting of a U.S. Mail carrier last month in Spring Branch, TX, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.;…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune March 24, 2017 Imagine a kindler and gentler hand on the Texas-Mexico border where federal agents on patrol educate and welcome visitors to America. That happens as people from both sides of the Rio Grande meet at the center of a new, shared border…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The 2017 Eagle Pass  International Friendship Festival kicks-off on Friday, March 24, 2017 with the traditional “Abrazo Ceremony” between representatives of the cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico at midway of the Eagle Pass International Bridge…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune March 23, 2017 Groups suing Texas over its political maps are asking a federal court to block the state’s current congressional boundaries ahead of the November 2018 elections. Texas NAACP, African American Congresspersons, Mexican American Legislative Caucus and other plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed…